Attention Restores Discrete Items to Visual Short-Term Memory

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 550-556

  Murray, Alexandra M ^a   Nobre, Anna C ^a,b   Clark, Ian A ^a   Cravo, André M ^a,c   Stokes, Mark G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

attention; short term memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876181068     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612457782     Document Type: Article

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